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HelpRe: American "classic" girls" names: one way to define it
in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
Interesting list and I think all these names are good names. Funny that I seldom see Mary, Maria, Miriam and Nina discussed on name sites.
Though I don't agree that only always popular names are "classic". Then they are too few! I consider old names classic, even if they sometimes are less popular. Like Emma, Diana, Helena, Alexandra, Sophia, Madeline, Leah, Isabella, Jane, Joanna and Cecilia.
And if a name is found in a novel by the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, then I consider it a classic. They have a classic feeling.
Also, when I think "classic", I don't think "American classic", more "international classic". Most of your names are international classics but there may be more which are classic in other countries but new in USA.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
Though I don't agree that only always popular names are "classic". Then they are too few! I consider old names classic, even if they sometimes are less popular. Like Emma, Diana, Helena, Alexandra, Sophia, Madeline, Leah, Isabella, Jane, Joanna and Cecilia.
And if a name is found in a novel by the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, then I consider it a classic. They have a classic feeling.
Also, when I think "classic", I don't think "American classic", more "international classic". Most of your names are international classics but there may be more which are classic in other countries but new in USA.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
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